Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick covers Robert Steinbuch’s lawsuit against the former Washingtonienne in full, tiresome detail, explaining that Jessica Cutler’s blog exposed “Capitol Hill as a sad cross between seventh grade and Melrose Place.” That’s us, right?

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In the short term, Steinbuch’s suit has only added buttercream frosting to the cake of humiliation Cutler baked him. It’s hard to fathom how his privacy interests are being protected by a pleading that recycles every salacious detail from her blog. But he is clearly angry and embarrassed and in search of some justice, and he has thus sued her for the tort of “public disclosure of private facts.” 

Even though his case seems rather weak to Lithwick, she says that a vital question still remains: “Is this lurid Internet dishing important free speech, or a cruel invasion of privacy?” We just hope this case doesn’t end up going to the Supreme Court to decide that issue. But stranger things have happened. Right, Anna Nicole?